adding symbol param problem

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For drawing a circle on top of a bar when that bar's High is higher than the (-1) bar's High by, say, 4 cents, the following works fine.

//{{EFSWizard_Expression_1
        if (
            high() >= high(-1) + .04
        ) onAction1();
    //}}EFSWizard_Expression_1


//{{EFSWizard_Action_1
    function onAction1() {
        drawShapeRelative(0, high(), Shape.CIRCLE, "", Color.RGB(0,0,0), Shape.TOP);
        vLastAlert = 1;
    }
    //}}EFSWizard_Action_1 

However, when I add a symbol parameter as below, circles are drawn on every higher High, not just the ones at least 4 cents higher.

How can I draw a circle on top of a bar on a QQQQ chart every time SPY goes higher by at least 4 cents instead of every time SPY goes higher?

//{{EFSWizard_Expression_1
        if (
            high(0, 1, "spy") >= high(-1, 1, "spy") + .04
        ) onAction1();
    //}}EFSWizard_Expression_1 

[ACM]

checkraise
I am not at my computer at this time so I am unable to verify this but if I remember correctly adding a value to price(-x, n, "symbol") [which I believe is an array object] concatenates that value rather than adding it.
For example if the value of ES U6 was 1280.25 then high(-1,1,"es u6")+0.05 will return 1280.250.05 instead of 1280.30.
To verify this run the following code on a chart and check the output in the Formula Output Window. You should see the effect I described.

function main(){
    var x = high(0,1,"es u6");
    debugPrintln(x+0.05);
} 

The solution to that is to convert price(-x,n,"symbol") to a value prior to performing a calculation and that can be easily done by multiplying or dividing that price by 1. In your condition try replacing the following
high(0, 1, "spy") >= high(-1, 1, "spy") + .04
with
high(0, 1, "spy") >= (high(-1, 1, "spy")*1) + .04
I think that will give you the result you want
Alex

[checkraise]

Alex, everything was just exacly like you said. It was indeed concatenating (nice word) - multiplying by 1 did the trick.

Thanks very much.

[ACM]

checkraise
You are most welcome
Alex